Topaz Cruise Ship
As for the fate of the Topaz she was sold and became a Japanese peace ship and was sailed to the Olympics in Greece 2004.
Topaz cruise ship. VesselFinder is a free Vessel Database with over 500000 ships technical specifications and management information live AIS positions and port calls ship photos and related news. In 1965 she went to Greek Line as QUEEN ANNA MARIA then in 1975 to Carnival as CARNIVALE in 1993 to short-lived Carnival subsidiary FiestaMarina Cruises as. Ship Collision Allision.
She was built in 1956 as EMPRESS OF BRITAIN one of the last three ocean liners built for Canadian Pacific. 8912 Type of ship. TSS The Topaz formerly the Empress of Britain was christened by Queen Elizabeth in 1955 and began life as a cruise ship in the North Atlantic sailing between Quebec Greenock Liverpool and Montreal.
In place of the released ships large block bookings have been made on larger more modern cruise ships of the major lines. The Topaz is an older but well maintained ship maybe one of the oldest cruise vessel still in regular operation. In 1964 she was sold to the Greek Line and after a refit was renamed Queen Anna Maria.
The ship itself was ok but the passengers were different. 351954000 Gross tonnage. THE TOPAZ nearing the end of a long career.
The superyacht has a beam of 215m a draft of 56m and a volume of 12532 GT. Having been launched by a queen and later named for a queen the majestic THE TOPAZ was a rare survivor of the great postwar British shipbuilding era. On October 4 1999 the day of vessels delivery by Ferrari Shipyards in Port Naples the ferry crashed onto the ocean liner The Topaz built in 1955 as RMS Empress of Britain scrapped in 2008.
THE TOPAZ is the venerable surviver of a trio of liners built between 1956 and 1961 for Canadian Pacific. Name of ship. The yachts builder is Lürssen from Germany who delivered superyacht A in 2012.
